LinkedLegislation Blog

In my last post, I made the point that government agencies should refer to, and use, official government sources for primary law, where available. The comments, including those by Tom Bruce of Cornell's LII, and Annette Nellen of San Jose State University, underscore the important role that third-party sites like... [Read More]

I start today's post with a curious observation: if you go to the IRS website looking for online copies of the U.S. Tax Code, what you find, on their page entitled "Tax Code, Regulations and Official Guidance" is a link to Cornell's Legal Information Institute, which hosts a copy of the... [Read More]

My last post, on Xcential hiring, has been on top for long enough, though we're always looking for great people. We now have a terrific new team member, Ian Davey, who worked with Ed Felten at Princeton at the Center for Information Policy. Ian has the mix that we are... [Read More]

Do you love law, but hate bluebooking? Do you think we should be able to apply version control to law, but know better than to just dump the U.S. Code into git?Then you might be the person for us. We are looking for a few strong programmers with an interest... [Read More]

The First U.S. LawI'm looking forward to the Data Transparency conference today in Washington, DC, organized by +Hudson Hollister. You already know this if you've been following this blog, or my tweets (@arihersh), or have had the good fortune to speak with me about legislative data recently.I will be presenting... [Read More]